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A wide smile took over the male’s expression when Tuvak agreed to join him. He stood in place until the boy was nearer to him, then began heading towards the treeline; he wasn’t entirely sure where they should go but he felt like the trees, which might have protected the ground partially from the snow, could potentially make it easier to walk. Either way, he wasn’t too concerned—they had nowhere to be, as far as the bear was aware, and he was more interested in talking, anyways. And while he started out quiet, that quickly changed after he was able to settle his mind and piece together actual words into real sentences.

“Where were you born?” was the first of many questions to be asked that day. “Are you from the far north?” Up until then, Aningan convinced himself that Tuvak was, without a doubt, led to him from the north. It was only when he really thought it through that he realised he never actually asked the boy where he was from—he heard his first language and immediately made assumptions, forgetting that others could easily be taught the language, as Maegi was. Speaking of Maegi and conversations with her…

“Who are your parents?” Did he know them? Probably not—Aningan knew very few northerners outside of his own family, after all. And even those he didn’t know as well as he should.